Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia

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An operating granite quarry 10km SSW of Lake Boga (17 km S of Swan Hill). Phosphates and uranium minerals occur in miarolitic voids. Pegmatite veins are common.

References

- Birch, W. D., Mumme, W. G. & Segnit, E. R. (1988): Ulrichite: a new copper calcium uranium phosphate from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineral. 3 (3), 125-131.
- Henry, D. A. and Birch, W. D. (1988): Sampleite and associated minerals from the Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Austral. Mineral. 3, 135-148.
- Birch, W. D. (1993): Phosphate minerals in granite rocks. In Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. (Birch, W.D. and Henry, D.A., Eds). Special Publication N°3, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, 5-39.
- Birch, W. D. (1996): Portlandite and other recent mineral discoveries in the granites at Lake Boga, Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Australian J. of Mineralogy 2 (2), 47-50.
- Birch, B., Pring, A., Kolitsch, U. (1999) Bleasdaleite, (Ca,Fe 3+)2Cu5(Bi, Cu)(PO4)4(H2O,OH,Cl)13, a new mineral from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 5: 69-75.
- Mills, S. J. (2004) Metanatroautunite (‘sodium autunite’) from the Lake Boga Granite, Victoria, Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 10 (1), 29–31.
- Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Maas, R., Phillips, D. & Plimer, I. R. (2008) Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria: mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55(3), 281–299.
- Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W. G. & Grey, I. E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia, American Mineralogist, 93(4), 691–697.
- Birch, W. D. (2008) Victoria's Uranium secret, Australasian Science Magazine, September, 22-24.
- Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Kolitsch, U. & Sejkora, J. (2008) Kunatite, CuFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2.4H2O, a new member of the whitmoreite group from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia, Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(1), 3–12.
- Mills, S. J. & Birch, W. D. (2010) Uranmineralien aus dem Lake-Boga-Granit, Victoria, Australien. Mineralien-Welt, 21(3), 62–67. (In German)

External Links

- http://www.crocoite.com/deeplead/lakeboga.htm [Link dead. Aug 2011]

Mineral List

Albite Anatase Atacamite Azurite Beryl Biotite Bismuth Bleasdaleite (TL) Cacoxenite Chalcanthite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chalcosiderite Cheralite Chlorargyrite 'Chlorite Group' Chrysocolla Connellite Copper

Covellite Crandallite Cyrilovite Digenite Djurleite Ferberite Fluorapatite var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite Fluorite Fluor-schorl Geerite Hematite Iodargyrite Kaolinite Kidwellite Kunatite (TL) Lakebogaite (TL) Leucophosphite Libethenite

Limonite Malachite Meta-autunite Metanatroautunite Meurigite-Na Microcline Molybdenite Monazite-(Ce) Muscovite Natrodufrénite Nontronite Opal var: Opal-AN Orthoclase Portlandite Pseudomalachite Pseudorutile Pyrite Quartz

Quartz var: Smoky Quartz Rockbridgeite Rutile Saléeite Sampleite Schorl Siderite Sphalerite Strengite Topaz Torbernite Turquoise Ulrichite (TL) Uraninite Variscite Wavellite

73 entries listed. 67 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals).